NASA Photo ID: S62-06008          File Name: 10073725.jpg

Film Type: 4x5 b&w                Date Taken: 10/05/62

Title: Astronaut Walter Schirra leaves transport van for Pad 14 and MA-8 mission

Description:

Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8)  earth
orbital space flight, steps from a transport van as he arrives at Cape 
Canaveral's Pad 14 during the MA-8 prelaunch countdown. Schirra is 
accompanied by Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. (in white coveralls), MA-8 
backup pilot.